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Fundamentally rewiring finance
The better aligned a society’s financial institutions are with its goals and ideals, the stronger and more successful the society will be.
Amanda WhiteJanuary 6, 2017
Organisational Design
The collective brain
The Future Fund knows exactly where its leadership team’s cognitive strengths, and weaknesses, lie. Does your fund?
Amanda WhiteMarch 18, 2016
Sustainability
Investing in volatile markets
The Future Fund portfolio has material exposure to two asset classes out of favour with many long-term investors. Chief investment officer, Raphael Arndt, explains why.
Raphael ArndtMarch 9, 2016
Investor Profile
The Future Fund 2.0
With its 10th birthday looming, the Future Fund is entering its next incarnation complete with a new investment team structure. AMANDA WHITE spoke to Raphael Arndt, Stephen Gilmore and David Neal. When David Neal, the inaugural chief investment officer of the Future Fund, became its managing director on August 4 last year, his previous role […]
Amanda WhiteNovember 11, 2015
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Investors need to revamp portfolio construction
Investors should re-consider their investment processes in order to achieve the needed “step-change in efficient portfolio construction” in a low return environment, the chief executive of the A$109 billion ($83 billion) Future Fund, David Neal, says. “It is the investment process that turns the universe of opportunities into a portfolio, and right now that process […]
Amanda WhiteApril 1, 2015
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AustralianSuper contemplates foreign outposts
Australia’s largest superannuation fund, AustralianSuper, is considering whether it should have its own investment management and currency hedging teams based in Europe and America. Due to the mandatory nature of the system in Australia, the current rate of funds under management growth means assets are doubling every four to five years. Peter Curtis, head of […]
David RowleyFebruary 24, 2015